Slowcore Week

_Spiderland_ inspired everyone from Tortoise to Mogwai and Cat Power; PJ Harvey wrote to the band in response to their request for a female vocalis...

In an early interview, from 1996, Alan Sparhawk joked that **Low** originated from an idea to make the slowest, most depressing music possible (“…a...

Welcome to a week devoted to Slowcore… arguably an “Alternative to Alternative music” that grew up in the shadow of Grunge, just as Teenage Rebelli...

**Galaxie 500** are widely considered to be one of the definitive bands of the late-1980s/early-1990s American underground. In the first of our slo...